Category Archives: Phalliban

Viennese Gag on Big Strudels

A poster campaign advertising ‘Nude Men’ (“a long overdue exhibition on the diverse and changing depictions of naked men from 1800 to the present”) at the Leopold Museum in Vienna seems to have aroused the passions of the local phalliban. I thought the Austrians, like the nut-brown Germans I spied on in Corfu when I

Adam Sandler Fights the Phalliban

It seems that Adam Sandler is striking a blow against the American Phalliban – in his next movie he tries to out-Speedo Daniel Craig. Looks like he’s succeeded, at least waist-down. All in all, taken in both hands and examined admiringly, even though it’s made of plastic it’s almost enough to make me forgive him

Firemen’s Big Hose Sets NY Ablaze

By Mark Simpson, (The Guardian, 8 Aug 2007) The Phalliban, America ‘s killjoy campaign against the male body’s, er, maleness, strikes yet again. The 2008 Fire Department of New York Calendar of Heroes, the eleventh in series of snaps of buffed young firemen stripped to the waist which produces mass hysteria on the streets of NY on

Rugger Buggers and Swinging Dicks

In the Middle Ages, sodomy was thought to be caused not by hair whorls, but by drunkeness. As this spornographic clip shows, they were absolutely right. The post-match beery bonding of the lovely lads of Sandbach RUFC — which, be warned, includes very male nudity, heavy petting and male-on-male snogging — made me feel faint

Pillars of the community — the Phalliban pops up again

  In the latest example of the prudish power of the USA’s rampant Phalliban, outraged residents of Kaiser, Oregon, have demanded the removal of some newly installed safety pillars. Apparently they are too reminiscent of male genitalia. What a load of bollards. Although I’m no expert on American penises, I’ve seen a few in my

Black Speedos, black pride and the American ‘Phalliban’

Following my recent ‘Speedophobia’ feature for OUT about the American Phalliban, it seems the terrifying outline of male genitalia is still striking fear into the hearts of our Colonial cousins — even in movies set in the tight-fit 1970s. According to Rod 2.0 the American Motion Picture Association of America was so alarmed by the

Speedophobia: America’s Fear and Loathing of Budgie Smuggling

Mark Simpson undresses the tortured relationship between American men and their swimsuits (Out, February 2007) PROHIBITEDTHE WEARING OF SKIN-TIGHT FORM-FITTING OR BIKINI TYPE APPAREL OR BATHING SUITS BY MALES OVER 12 YRSAGE  If the stern, killjoy rubric of this warning sign, erected in the 1960s by the good people of Cape May, N.J., sounds